Has anyone out there been cured of Gastritis
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Hi I have Gastritis and just come off Lansoprazole and onto Omeprazole 30mg once a day.
Glad to find you can take it with food .Im generally ok during the day but things get worse at night with reflux acid burning my throat .I'm thinking of taking Omeprazole at midday so it lasts further into the night as the reflux is effecting my sleep I'm already raising bed small meals nothing after 7pm .
When do people take their Omeprazole?
Don't want to increase dose but maybe another 20mg at night would help .
Also has anyone out there been cured of Gastritis
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zoe57508 alison_74603
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alison_74603 zoe57508
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I have had lots of tests ..including H .Pylori I'm clear .Endoscopy showed moderate Gastritis. When do you take your Lansoprazole morning or evening .One good thing is that you can take Omeprazole with food . Good luck.
zoe57508 alison_74603
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Barretts alison_74603
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They should be taken at the same time each day and are best before food. This is to ensure they are propelled into the duodenum for absorption. They are enteric protected to prevent being broken up in the stomach but if they reside there too long, they may dissolve there and become ineffective.
The best time to take them is half an hour before breakfast. That is the time most people find it best to become a habit. They work continuously and their efficacy increases after a few days build up. However, they are most effective for the 12 hour period after taking them which is why morning dosing is suggested to reduce acid production during the times that occurs. You are less likely to produce acid when sleeping and no food to digest.
If your problems are at night, it'll be more from the reflux than the acid. PPIs work on reducing acid. Unfortunately there is no simple medication for reducing reflux and it sounds as if you're doing the right things to reduce that.
If you think your nocturnal reflux is acidic, you may decide to take an H2 blocker (eg ranitidine / Zantac) at night to reduce the acidity.
Gastritis is usually caused by acid hypersecretion and usually clears up after a few weeks on PPIs. It can also result from H-Pylori bacteria which you should have been tested for. That requires a totally different treatment (combination of 3 different antibiotics).
alison_74603 Barretts
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Barretts alison_74603
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I try to be helpful.
zoe57508 Barretts
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paul38620 zoe57508
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zoe57508 paul38620
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paul38620 zoe57508
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paul38620 alison_74603
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My experience with gastritis regarding the acid reflux side of it became more of an issue through going to bed too empty, too long after my last meal. Apart from awful hunger and its discomfort, which would keep me awake or wake me up, I found that my stomach, abdominal muscles and/or eosophagus would suddenly spasm or contract and in some cases shoot acid up into my eosophagus, so that it was by not going to bed so hungry that I got this to stop. Whether this could help in your case only experiment would show, for we are all different. I lie down around an hour and a half or bit longer after last meal.
alison_74603 paul38620
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paul38620 alison_74603
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I meant to say in my last comment, for Zoe too, that the likes of Gaviscon are best if not of the minty variety, as mint relaxes the lower-eosophageal muscle, which will of course make it easier for stomach contents to get into the eosophagus. I have a strawberry one for emergency times when I have a set-back or spasm as mentioned before.
Make sure to tell your doctor of the blood in your saliva, so they have every symptom noted, and also be aware of medicine side-effects that might show up. Sometimes they are mild and temporary and settle as the body adapts, but prolonged or immediate serious side-effects naturally need to be mentioned. I developed intolerable throat and mouth dryness through lansoprazole and don't have a PPI. Thoughts are with you and every other sufferer.
papote53 paul38620
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